Final exam study guide: Network Management    Dordal    6/27/05

The exam will be open book, but you will NOT be allowed to use
notes or other materials.

Chapters to be covered:

Chapter 4 on SNMPv1 (also on the midterm)

Chapter 5, on SNMPv1 communications
	MIB views
	community profiles
	access policy
	VarBinds and VarBindLists
	OID lexicographic ordering
	GetRequest and GetNextRequest
	Row-major traversal using GetNext
	
	Some end-of-chapter exercises: 8, 10, 11, 12

Chapter 6, on SNMPv2
	basic changes
	augmentation of tables
	creation and deletion of rows in tables
	changes in MIBs
	changes in Trap (now Informs)
	GetBulkRequest ("getbulk") operation
	compatibility with SNMPv1
	
	Some end-of-chapter exercises: 5, 6, 7, 8
	
Chapter 7, on SNMPv3
	abstract interfaces
	security threats
	user-based model
	Authoritative entities
	timestamps and engineIDs
	authentication using secure checksums (eg md5)
	secure key update
	access control & vacm
	
	Some end-of-chapter exercises: 4, 5, 7
	Describe the exchanges involved in updating an authentication key
	Describe how using AuthKey (and basic rules of SNMPv3)
	    protect against the security threats of modification,
	    masquerade, and message stream modification
	    
Chapter 8, on RMON
	rmon basic principles; how it differs from snmp
	rmon has its own row-creation mechanism
	control tables
	Statistics group
	History group: look at MIB
	Alarm group
	Host group
	HostTopN group
	Matrix group
	Filter Group
	
	What RMON2 adds
	
	Some end-of-chapter exercises: 
	    1
	    2 (alarms would do the failure notification)
	    4
	    7
	    
Chapter 12
	basics of NMSs
	

You should also be familiar in a general way with the following
concepts from the Linux Advanced Routing and Traffic Control toolkit.
You will *NOT* be required to know any command syntax.

    * NAT
    * multiple routing tables
    * per-packet routing-table selection by looking at all pkt fields
    * packet "tagging"
    * tc classes: fifo, pfifo_fast, sfq, tbf
    * notion of throttling individual flows (eg via tc-cbq)
      and when/why you might want to do that